Wednesday midweek, I reel at the news of another mass shooting.  This time the slaughter was visited upon children (19 children and 2 adults) at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.  And the reason?  Why there was no reason, in the classical definition of reason.  A few of the causes: a society awash in guns; one individual in free-fall, over the precipice of despair with nothing-left-to-lose; a Republican party with a fetish in particular for the 2nd amendment of the Constitution; a general malaise, the wide spread sense that humanity white-knuckled, careens down a mountainside, each turn (without guardrails) approaches with increasing velocity, etc. etc.

The score so far.

supermarkets in Buffalo and in Boulder, Colo.
a rail yard in San Jose, Calif.
a birthday party in Colorado Springs
a convenience store in Springfield, Mo.
a synagogue in Pittsburgh
churches in Sutherland Springs, Texas and in Charleston, S.C.
a Walmart in El Paso
a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis
a music festival in Las Vegas
massage parlors in the Atlanta area
a Waffle House in Nashville
a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
and a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
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Sandy Hook Elementary School
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Oxford High School
Santa Fe High School
Columbine High School
Robb Elementary School in Uvalde

What is going to change?  Nothing.

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Nevertheless

vegetation thrives by light and heat of the angle of springtime sun.  We found a nest of newborn rabbits yesterday in Braeburn Park, next to the creek.  Nature, the earth, with cycles of the seasons, of water evaporation-condensation-rainfall, of birth-development-maturation-death present a method of ordering our world, of holding reality in the mind.  Our ancestors, – your grandparents, great grandparents, recognized that life is flow, with bite and sweet gravity.

The photographs were captured yesterday in the backyard.